Quasar Media Player Released For Sharprom And Pdaxrom

[Jon_J]

This is on my Cacko SL-C3100
This should playback *.flv files, shouldn't it?
I have fullscreen off and "-vo bvdd" set as option for mplayer for all my video formats.
I also disabled double buffering.
I have these settings the same in zplayer, which plays this video without any problems.
I tried the default settings the first time I played this video, and my Z locked up.

I have this youtube video that just causes Quasar to lock up, and go to a white screen (other times the screen is all black)
The audio plays OK.
When I use my "Cancel" button, the screen returns to what is shown in the attached image.
I cannot get past that screen, unless I reboot or use the reset button.
I can get to the "Reboot" button in the shutdown app under settings by navigating with the keyboard.
I was going to attach the offending video, but it is 13MB.

[eviLjazz]

Okay, thanks for reporting. I experienced the problem once while trying to play a corrupt MPEG1 file. I thought it was a problem in Atty's MPlayer binary. But thanks for the ZPlayer hint. I will try to reproduce the problem here and see what ZPlayer does differently. The MPlayer encapsulation in Quasar has changed quite a lot from the original ZPlayer sources.

I was going to attach the offending video, but it is 13MB.

I'll PM you a temporary FTP account, where you can upload the file if you want.

[ofels]

I cannot get past that screen, unless I reboot or use the reset button.
I can get to the "Reboot" button in the shutdown app under settings by navigating with the keyboard.

Try the Ctrl-Alt-Backspace shortcut to enforce a shutdown of the X server and relogon which is faster than doing a straight reboot.
That might help also.

Oliver

[xamindar]

I cannot get past that screen, unless I reboot or use the reset button.
I can get to the "Reboot" button in the shutdown app under settings by navigating with the keyboard.

Try the Ctrl-Alt-Backspace shortcut to enforce a shutdown of the X server and relogon which is faster than doing a straight reboot.
That might help also.

Oliver

Dude, that totally doesn't work on the sharp rom.  Don't suggest things that will have no effect.  If he was having this problem on pdaxrom then sure, but this doesn't work for cacko.

[ofels]

Dude,

I believe that was meant in a friendlier way than it sounded, right ?

that totally doesn't work on the sharp rom.  Don't suggest things that will have no effect.  If he was having this problem on pdaxrom then sure, but this doesn't work for cacko.

1.) I simply missed the platform specs he was referring to, so it indeed will not work for him.
2.) It will work under Angstrom and pdaXrom so it might be useful at least for those folks with similar problems. Even if it it is not helpful for the original poster.
3.) Had a bad day ?  Get some sleep  

Oliver

[ZDevil]

Hi, eviLjazz,
There is a small issue with my debian armel package. I adapted the control file of the pdaxrom package and left the Depends line blank, which is a little hiccup when installing the armel package from the feed. Could you list the dependencies here? Thanks!  

[eviLjazz]

Could you list the dependencies here?

The only dependencies are Qt3 and mplayer. I didn't list Qt3 on pdaXrom since it's already included. The same goes for mplayer on pdaXii13.
So, the dependencies on Debian would probably be libqt3-mt and mplayer, not sure though.

[cptpike]

I'm currently using Quasar .9 on my c1000 with cacko 1.23.  I'm still having the rotated half screen video playback problem.  I've tried using some of the additional options others have stated, with no results.  The problem is occurring when I play video over the network from server.  If I drag the exact same file on to my sd card, the playback is in the correct orientation and full screen.  Any suggestions?

[eviLjazz]

The problem is occurring when I play video over the network from server.

Okay, how do you access the file? Via URL, Samba share, NFS export, etc.?
URL access to video files is problematic with the current version of mplayer.
What video codec were your files encoded in? DivX, XviD, H.264... ? What container-format? AVI, Ogg, Matroska, etc.?
I guess Quasar doesn't recognize that the file actually is a video file, so it's using the wrong settings for playback. That would be a bug, but it totally depends on how you feed the file into the player.

[cptpike]

Thanks for the quick reply.  I'm watching mp4 files with an aac audio codec over a samba share.  The same files play fine in Kino2 over the network.  I would much rather use quasar though.

[geeko]

thank you for this program. It is very nice. Is there support for FLAC files?

[Capn_Fish]

I assume it does.

[stupkid]

thank you for this program. It is very nice. Is there support for FLAC files?

It just uses mplayer to play the files.  So, whatever mplayer supports will work.  Quasar is just a really fast and nice front end for mplayer.

[undrwater]

quasar is not recognizing my mplayer binary.  it's located at /mnt/card/opt/QtPalmtop/bin/mplayer and linked to /home/QtPalmtop/bin/mplayer

I've set both locations in Configuration | Mplayer section, and the popup asking if I want to specify the location.
This is on a 6000.

[the_oak]

Earlier in this thread was some info about using Quasar on the 6000. There is a link for the version of Mplayer that works for me. Also look for the info on fb.modes file. Enclose789 summarized this nicely in page 4 of this thread. Hope this helps.